The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has called on religious leaders to preach on the
ills of corruption.
He made the call at the public presentation of “Project Eat-
Halal and Sermon Guide for Imam/Scholars,” organised by the Just Foundation in
Guzape, Abuja.
He was represented by the Head of Creative Communications
Unit of the Commission, Deputy Commander of the EFCC, Nwayinma Okeanu.
The anti-graft boss said, “We need to teach our people in
the mosques, in the churches the ills of corruption in our society, how it has
affected us. I do not read the Qur’an, but I am sure it speaks against
corruption, and so does the Bible.”
He said aside from the responsibility of arresting and
prosecuting culprits of financial crime, the EFCC is also mandated to prevent
economic crimes including corruption. This he says the Commission does by
working with faith-based organisations like the Just Foundation.
According to him, “A lot of people think that the EFCC is only
about arrest and prosecution, but I want to stand here to tell all of us that
the EFCC is working very much in line with what project EAT-HALAL is all
about”.
On his part, the Chairman of the occasion and Director of
MacArthur Foundation Africa Office, Dr. Kole Shettima expressed his delight at
the launch of “SERMON GUIDE”, saying the book will serve as a guideline to
Imams, leaders and scholars on how to interact with people, and will also be an
instrument to guide how the work should be done.
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